Viktor Kaplan

Viktor Kaplan (November 27, 1876 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria - August 23, 1934 in Unterach am Attersee, Austria) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Viktor Kaplan low res pic + historical person -> fairuse source: http://members. ... Viktor Kaplan low res pic + historical person -> fairuse source: http://members. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Mürzzuschlag is a town in Styria, Austria, with a population of 9,569 (2001). ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Bonneville Dam Kaplan turbine after 61 years of service The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine that has adjustable blades. ...

Life

Although Kaplan was born into a worker's family (Kaplan's father worked at the railroad), he attended the Technical University of Vienna after he graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895. He studied civil engineering and specialised in diesel motors and from 1900 to 1901 he was drafted into military service in Pula. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Aerial picture Pula (Croatian Pula, Italian Pola, Istriot Pula, Slovenian Pulj) is the largest city in Istria, Croatia, at the southern tip of that peninsula, population 59,080 (2005). ...

After working in Vienna with specialisation on motors, he moved to the Brno University of Technology to do research at the institute of civil engineering. In Brno he spend the next three decades of his life and nearly all his inventions and research are connected with his professorship there (he became a full professor in 1909. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... The Czech Technical University was founded in 1899. ... // Geography Brno (help· info) (-Czech, German: Brünn) is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, located in the southeast part of the country, at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1912 he published his most notable work: the Kaplan turbine, a revolutionary water turbine that was especially fitted to produce electricity out of large streams with only moderate incline. In 1912 to 1913 he got four patents on these kind of turbines. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A Bonneville Dam Kaplan turbine after 61 years of service The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine that has adjustable blades. ... Kaplan turbine and electrical generator cut-away view. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... WWII era ship propulsion turbine A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. ...

In 1913 he was appointed head of the institute for water turbine. In 1918 the Kaplan turbines were first built by the Storek construction company for a textile manufacturer in Lower Austria. After the success of the first Kaplan turbines, they became used world-wide and are still today one of the widely used kind of water turbines. 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Kaplan turbine and electrical generator cut-away view. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Kaplan turbine and electrical generator cut-away view. ...

In 1926 and 1934 Kaplan received honorary doctorates. He died in 1934 of an apoplexy. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Apoplexy is an old-fashioned medical term, generally used interchangeably with cerebrovascular accident (CVA or stroke) but having other meanings as well. ...